Bram Vandendriessche

about

I'm Bram — a software/data/AI engineer with a background in computer science. I build production-grade data platforms, AI-powered applications, and software products. I've led teams, coached engineers, and worked across industries from finance and telecom to medical research and logistics. I'm currently working as an Engineering Manager at Panenco.

Based in Belgium
Languages: Dutch, English, French
M.Sc. Computer Science, KU Leuven

expertise

Data Platforms — End-to-end design and implementation on Databricks, Snowflake, and Hadoop — from ingestion to analytics-ready models with dbt.
AI & GenAI — AI-native applications, from customer-facing chatbots with LangChain and LangGraph to ML pipelines and computer vision.
Cloud & Infrastructure — Production infra on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Terraform, CI/CD, cloud-native architecture.
Data Pipelines — Robust ELT from diverse sources — Spark, Azure Data Factory, Python, and SQL at scale.
Tech Leadership — Team leadership, resource planning, account management, and mentoring engineers.
Software Engineering — Backend development, API design, and building production services.
Training & Coaching — Teaching data platform principles, dbt, and software engineering best practices.

experience

Engineering Manager — Panenco (prev. Inect)

2025/10 – present

Engineering management and tech leadership across AI-native applications, data platforms, and software engineering. Inect was acquired by Panenco in December 2025.

TypeScript, Python, AWS, GCP, Azure, GenAI

Team Lead & Data/Cloud Engineer — Dataroots

2020/11 – 2025/10

Led a team of ~10 consultants while designing and delivering data platforms and AI applications. Built pipelines on Hadoop, Snowflake, and Databricks with dbt. Implemented GenAI chatbot agents with LangGraph. Coach and mentor for personal development. Taught data platform principles, dbt & software engineering at the (bi-)yearly RootsAcademy. Guild Grandmaster Data & Cloud — built a culture of R&D and knowledge sharing, organized RootsConf.

Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, Python, LangChain, Terraform

ICT Coördinator ad interim — vzw Comité voor Onderwijs

2020 (fall)

Assisted the school with its transformation to Google Classrooms. Supported teachers with day-to-day questions about the digital aspects of a classroom.

Machine Learning Engineer — ToThePoint

2019/09 – 2020/11

AI projects including data analysis, reinforcement learning, computer vision, and constraint programming. Built PoCs and production solutions.

Python, OpenCV, AWS Sagemaker, Docker

skills

Languages: Python, Java, SQL, HCL, Shell

Data: Databricks, dbt, Snowflake, Spark, ADF

AI & ML: LangChain / LangGraph, Computer Vision, FastAPI

Cloud & Infra: AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD

Leadership: Team Management, Coaching, Account Management

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